# `legal.loupe/citation-lookup` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/legal.loupe/citation-lookup
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/legal.loupe/citation-lookup
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: legal.loupe (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:53:22.908Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Loupe: free citation lookup
Check if a US legal citation exists, names its case and has a valid pin cite; or find a case. Free.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:18:14.265Z over streamable-http.

**2 tools: 1 change things and 1 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 1 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (1)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `check_citation`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Check one US legal citation, or a sentence holding a few: whether it exists in the sources Loupe checks, which case it is, and whether a pin cite falls inside the opinion. Give it exactly as written, with the case name and year if the document has them, because the commonest error is a real citation attached to the wrong case.
```

## Only reads (1)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `search_cases`

- The name "search_cases" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search the case names in Loupe's index, or look up the case a citation names. Give the parties' names, and the year if known. A case missing from the results may still exist.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `citation-lookup`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__citation-lookup__search_cases"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__citation-lookup__check_citation"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```